MA Global Sustainable Development (Dumfries campus)
Entry requirements
A level: BBB or CCC IB: 32 (5,5,5) Scottish Higher: BBBB Higher Scottish Higher (widening access): No Adjusted Higher Requirements.
About this course
MA in Global Sustainable Development (Dumfries campus), an international development with economics degree exploring economic, environmental, and social challenges. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The curriculum incorporates frequent fieldwork trips to rural and urban sites such as afforestation projects and energy infrastructure. The first year establishes foundations through Introduction to Sustainable Development, Introduction To Global Environmental Issues, People, Power and Place, and Energy, Waste and Pollution: Options for Sustainability. Year 2 examines global perspectives on health, environmental ethics, and politics via modules such as Ethics: environment and development, Political Economy of Globalisation and Development, Politics and the Environment, and Environmental Communication and Behaviour Change. Year 3 involves advanced study, placement opportunities, and Dissertation 3 alongside Advanced Texts in Sustainable Development, Innovation and Enterprise for Sustainability, and Research Methods for Social Science. The final year concludes with advanced topics and an Honours Action Research Project II supported by modules like Environmental Field Course, Migration and development, and Water resources policy and governance.
Modules
- Introduction to Sustainable Development
- Introduction To Global Environmental Issues
- People, Power and Place
- Energy, Waste and Pollution: Options for Sustainability
- Global Perspectives on Health and Human Development
- Ethics: environment and development
- Political Economy of Globalisation and Development
- Politics and the Environment
- Environmental Communication and Behaviour Change
- Advanced Texts in Sustainable Development
- Innovation and Enterprise for Sustainability
- Research Methods for Social Science
- Dissertation 3
- Placement
- Placement (International)
- Environmental Field Course
- Migration and development
- Water resources policy and governance
- Honours Action Research Project II